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Notes for interview with @TonyaJoRiley of @CyberScoopNews regarding #EndToEndEncryption of Direct Messenger on Twitter post-Musk
So, I got interviewed for this; as usual I took a big set of questions via email, and then some back-and-forth over Signal for clarifications and followup: Interview Notes So, to answer the usual last question first, as I am sure you already know otherwise you would not be contacting me: I’m Alec Muffett, I…
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Suddenly #Mastodon: history teaches what will happen when Twitter-expatriates discover “federated social networks” are a volatile blend of unsafe spaces & stifled speech with blunt, imprecise instruments to address their woes @jonronson @jamesrbuk @bradtem
Elon took over Twitter, both the community and the products are tearing themselves apart, and a bunch of people who have probably never used a federated social network before are beginning to experience the joy of having nobody they can usefully complain to. But those of us who are old enough and nerdy enough, have…
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Slides, Scripts and PDFs for the Encryption Panel session at #UKIGF #UKIGF22
I am chairing the session on encryption at UKIGF on the 1st of November, 2022. For reasons of size and timing the slides did not make it into the conference’s monolithic megadeck, so I attach them below, along with the draft speaker notes, in a variety of formats; hopefully attendees can use them to follow…
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More evidence of how the #DigitalMarketsAct demand for #Interoperability will turn #EndToEndEncryption Messenger Apps into festering pools of Spam
Previously Previously Previously Via a discussion on HackerNews, I came across this 2014 email to the ModernCryptography list, outlining spam prevention from the content-centric approach that GMail takes, via Mike Hearn — a former GMail engineer. It’s a great read, and I particularly noted this bit, with my emphasis: Systems like WhatsApp don’t seem to…
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“XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works” by Krishna Sundarram
What a timely posting; I particularly like the war stories of how trolls and other abusers circumvent and then leverage “approval” processes, in order to create strongly authenticated abusive accounts which can do significant damage because they require escalation to have them finally removed.
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“An adversary can imperceptibly perturb an image that would normally be placed in this bank, and all live instances of the benign image will then be either incorrectly removed or flagged”
Adversarial collision attacks on image hashing functions https://aisecure-workshop.github.io/amlcvpr2021/cr/9.pdf
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One aspect that I really appreciate about getting older is the increasing number of past events that you thought were “missed opportunities” being later revealed as “dodged bullets”
Yes, of course there are a few regrets, but actually over-all the trend is downwards.
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If you are interested in #DarkPatterns but actually want to understand what drives them, watch this TED talk by @danariely, notably the pharma story…
It’s the best exposition of what’s going on that I have seen.
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Okay, yes, some people I know are quite upset that the Apple #AirTag may be used to track people; but the anti-stalking features hamper return of stolen goods, so…
…therefore there is use for videos like this: Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/terngsd/comments/y1ezgf/quite_possibly_the_greatest_place_to_hide_an/
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Um…
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Stonehenge in Biscuits